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Candle Project Appeal

St Christopher's Candle Project works with bereaved children and young people of all ages, helping them and their families to cope with bereavement. Quite often this bereavement is sudden, because of suicide, murder or short term illness.

All of us face an enormous challenge when someone close to us dies. But it can feel especially hard to know how best to help children who have...

Ron’s story

I’m Ron from Beckenham and I’m 76-years-old. I am a day patient at St Christopher’s. I often have to use a wheelchair, but that didn’t stop me doing the Fun Walk this year with my familiy.

It was a fantastic day out and my team, PullenPush, and I managed to raise just over £10,500!

When I was diagnosed with lung cancer I was really depressed at first but then I thought ‘I’...

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St Christopher's Nursing Appeal

The nursing teams on the four wards at St Christopher’s provide specialist and compassionate care to patients approaching the end of their lives. To ensure that they are able to provide the best possible care, we need the best equipment.

The specialist mattresses, recliner chairs and syringe drivers used at the hospice are invaluable. They help reduce pain and make sure our patients...

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St Christopher's Hospice Lent Appeal 2012

St Christopher's Spiritual Care Lead Andrew Goodhead

St Christopher's Spiritual Care Lead Andrew Goodhead has written to local churches asking them to consider choosing the hospice as the local charity for their lent appeal, to help raise funds to buy syringe drivers.

We need to purchase 100 new syringe drivers for use throughout the hospice. 

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Valerie's Story

“St Christopher’s enabled my mother to live life to the full within the limitations of her illness – with our continued support they can do the same for more local people”

Above: Evie serving in the Ambulance Service, below left: Evie centre stage at a Blitz Kids performance, below right: Valerie's mother Evie

My name is Valerie and my mother, Evie, was cared...

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